Setting the pace for retinal development: Environmental enrichment acts through insulin-like growth factor 1 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 10809-10819

  Landi, Silvia ^a   Ciucci, Francesca ^a   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,c   Berardi, Nicoletta ^b,c   Cenni, Maria Cristina ^c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA;

EID: 69749097100     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1857-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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